Top Doctors Sources
Madison Media uses several top doctor sources to identify and qualify physicians across many medical specialties. Below is a summary of these top doctors sources.
Castle Connolly
Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. is a healthcare research and information company. Founded in 1991 by a former medical College Board chairman and president, Castle Connolly's goal is to help guide consumers to America's top doctors and top hospitals. Castle Connolly's established survey and research process, under the direction of an MD, involves tens of thousands of top doctors in America and the medical leadership of leading hospitals.
Castle Connolly’s website: www.castleconnolly.com
Nomination Process: www.castleconnolly.com/about/nomprocess.cfm
Super Doctors
Key Professional Media performs the polling, research and selection for Super Doctors in a process designed to identify medical professionals who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Super Doctors is a selective yet diverse listing of outstanding doctors, representing consumer-oriented medical specialties.
Super Doctors’ website: www.superdoctors.com
Selection Process: www.superdoctors.com/about/selection_process.html
Trusted LASIK Surgeons
The primary mission of Trusted LASIK Surgeons (TLS) is to assist the consumer in finding LASIK and refractive surgeons who are the best and most trusted in the United States. They also provide an invaluable resource of LASIK and refractive procedures for consumers. TLS estimates that many, if not most of the LASIK eye surgeons in their LASIK Directory have professional credentials that place them within an elite circle comprising the top 1% of LASIK and refractive surgeons in the United States. Of the other refractive surgeons listed in the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Directory, most have professional credentials that they estimate 5% of all refractive surgeons in the United States would have and the remaining few would be among the top 10%.
Trusted LASIK Surgeons' website: www.trustedlasiksurgeons.com
Qualification Process: www.trustedlasiksurgeons.com/how_are_lasik_surgeons_qualified_at_tls.htm
Consumers’ Checkbook
Consumers’ Checkbook/The Center for the Study of Services is an independent, nonprofit consumer organization founded in 1974 with the help of funding from the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs. To find out who the top doctors are around the country, nonprofit Consumers' Checkbook surveyed roughly 340,000 physicians to tell us which specialists they would want to care for a loved one. The Top Doctors database contains the names of over 23,000 doctors who were mentioned most often.
Consumers’ Checkbook’s website: www.checkbook.org
City/Regional Magazine Top Doctors Issues
Many city and regional magazines publish an annual top doctors issue. They either contract with a top doctor source – like Castle Connolly – to provide the list of top doctors in their city for the issue or they conduct a peer-nominating survey of doctors themselves. Madison Media conducts a review of each magazine’s process to ensure it meets the high standards we require for any of their doctors to be included in our programs.
